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...worried that it will--by the watchful AAA. Before every summer and major holiday, the AAA makes uncanny, exact predictions about the total number of vehicles that are about to flood the highways as well as about the average distance per trip. How does it do that? Computers? Spies? Wiretaps? "Hi, honey, I'll be coming on Aug. 5, driving straight through from Denver ... What's that clicking noise...
...destroying that microscopic dot the exact moral equivalent of driving a knife through the heart of an innocent 6-year-old girl? Some stem-cell enthusiasts think that even antiabortion absolutists can support stem-cell research, since it uses surplus embryos that are doomed anyhow. But that logic would justify Nazi experiments on doomed Jews in the concentration camps. If the microscopic dot is a human being with full human rights, the answer is easy: no stem-cell research...
...atmosphere? Hopper himself wasn't much of a guide. He was somewhat reclusive, and discussed his work only in the most general way. He wrote in the catalog for his 1933 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan: "My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature." Nor was he particularly illuminating when he told TIME in 1948: "You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling." Certainly, many of his pictures have the poignancy of scenes glimpsed from a car or train. He never traveled very...
Broadway Market only started accepting Crimson Cash last month, and Sabounjian says sales have been “better than expected” but that it is too soon to have exact figures. He says students coming into the store have told him they appreciate the convenience of being able to swipe their cards...
...this story, I asked everyone what they would do if they had two weeks to make the most of college. Phillips Professor of History Laurel T. Ulrich, a former professor of mine, enthusiastically mentioned museums (“I’m high on museums” were her exact words). Dean Gross wrote in an e-mail that if he had just two weeks he “would attend all the talks and exhibits that take place here. Not to mention the Mather Lather.” Most people suggested some version of the same advice, essentially amounting...